Sales built a budget forecast tool with hardcoded 2019 rates

“Nobody outside the team uses it.”— Lukas, Sales

Reason:

Officially because the automation sends an email asking someone to do it manually. With dark mode and no error handling.

Built by:

Lukas, a team lead

Build time:

3 hours 26 minutes

Built with:

React, Vite and enthusiasm

Database:

DynamoDB with one item containing everything

Authentication:

the password hint contains the password

Deployment:

behind a load balancer pointing to exactly one machine

Responsible:

Katrin, who insists they are not the owner

Documentation:

a README last updated 141 days ago

Security situation:

the firewall rule is 0.0.0.0/0

Future disaster:

It will get a support rota before it gets an owner.

Age: 6.8 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 2 reorganisations · last meaningful change 823 days ago

Rated mythic mostly because: 100% chance of becoming business critical, 200 users, 4 accidental connections.